"East Road Restaurant" and other East Road restaurants (Part 2)
Nan Bongsan Jia Shengfu Liu Yingyuan
In 1921, after the opening of the Beijing-Suicheng Railway, the station was located in Cuijiashaliang, north of the road of the old and new cities. The foreign companies moved from the south to the north end, and lived in the livestock fur shops of Taiping Street, Taiping Zhaoqian and Shaliang in the east and west.
The main street in the old town of the naturalized city began to prosper.
With the train coming to the East Road and other industries, they rented facades on this street and outside the South Gate to build buildings, and later demolished the South City Gate and Drum Tower, and this street became the most prosperous Great North Street in the future.
On both sides are mostly fashionable industries such as restaurants, bathhouses, shoe and hat shops, clock shops, western medicine shops, dental densetti and photo studios opened by "East Roadmen". The foundation of "East Road Restaurant" is very shallow, and it is not as strong as the local restaurant.
In addition to Zhang Zhenting of "Taihelong", he took over the "Rongshengyuan" in the "small class restaurant" on Qipan Street and moved it to the entrance of Hengchangdian Alley on Dabei Street.
Other "East Road Restaurants" cannot gain a foothold on the main streets of Great North Street and Great South Street. "Yijucheng" because after the foreign company moved north, the business in Xiaozhao Bandao Street was depressed, so he moved the restaurant to Xiaodong Street (that is, the place occupied by the "Little Big Lead Printing Bureau" in the future).
Before the "Yijucheng" was not moved to Xiaodong Street, there was a "East Road Restaurant" north of the "Mingshantang Bookstore", that is, Wang Chef of Yuci, Shanxi, who learned a lot of East Road crafts by cooking in a foreign company, came out to invest in the "cheap fast" opened by himself.
Naturalized city people are accustomed to eating roasted wheat, buns and pies, and they are very curious about the potstickers of the "East Road Restaurant", and "Cheap Zhai" uses potstickers as a call, which can attract customers.
Chef Wang is very strong, and he spares no effort in stir-frying. As long as the customer said that the soup was tasteless, he immediately chopped up several chickens and put them in it to redo, so although the transaction was prosperous, it could not make money, and finally lost the old capital, ended the "cheap fast" in 1923, and played the "Jujin Lou" that was friends with the people who came out of "Rongshengyuan".
"Jujin Lou" and the later reorganized "Juxian Lou" were set up at the entrance of Dongmadao Lane on the east side of Dabei Street Road. Although it was opened by locals and Shanxi people, in order to do the business of the "Hebei Gang" merchants and Beitou foreign banks in this street, it was under the banner of "East Road Restaurant", just as "Rong Shengyuan" was taken over by East Road people, but still regarded itself as a local "small class restaurant".
"Jujin Lou" was reorganized as "Juxian Lou" in 1928. "Juxian Lou" was taken over by "Shuzhen Hotel" in 1933, so it did not operate for a long time, all related to Chef Wang's waste of things. It is said that the three managers Wang Anning and Li Wan of "Jujin Lou" and Qiao Kaiji of "Juxian Lou" have esophageal cancer, and they are all terminally ill by Chef Wang.
However, the main reason is that the opening of Jingsui Road only brought superficial prosperity to the naturalized city, while the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic affected the decline of the commercial port of the naturalized city, so the fur market became more and more depressed day by day. Fur shops have set up packed rice rooms, so that foreign buyers do not eat on the street.
At the same time, in the year that "Jujin Lou" was established in 1923, the Kowloon Bay Lane entrance of Great North Street was established, and the "Qingyun Building" was changed to "Hung Hing Lou", together with "Rong Sheng Yuan", there were three large restaurants with buildings.
After "Qingyunlou" was changed to "Hongqinglou", two chefs, "Dazhang" and "Erzhang", were hired from Beijing to attract customers from Donglu.
In addition, there are several later "East Road Restaurants", except for "Qingfeng Ju" opened at the railway station, "Shuangheju" opened before Dazhao, and the rest such as "Tongheju" opened in the southeast corner of Dashizi.
Song Huating put the "Guanghua House" established after the end of the "Four Times Spring" in Pingkangli, and the "Huabin Building" opened by Jiangsu chef Li Guoxiang on Daxi Street.
"Hara Defu" was opened near the "Folk Music Club" in Ximadao Lane. Finally, a "Yide Cheng" was inserted between "Rongshengyuan" and "Jujin Lou", and a "pie porridge" appeared on the south side of "Rongshengyuan".
On the street from Beimen to Dashizi, there are so many "East Road restaurants" and local restaurants, so no one has lasted long. "Jujin Lou" and "Juxian Lou" are certainly no exception.
"Yide Cheng" is separated from the "Yijucheng" of Xiaodong Street, and is a new brand opened by You Jingbo, a group of East Roaders who drive cars, and others to "Er Chen" (Chen Fulin). "Yijucheng" left because of "Er Chen", and hired "Dachen" (Chen Honglin) from Tianjin.
The façade occupied by "Yide Cheng" on Great North Street was later rented by the "Zhengxingshi" hardware shop, where the "Shengxin Shi" selling electrical and mechanical materials was rebuilt, so "Yi Decheng" was only a flash in the pan on Great North Street.
Although "Yijucheng" has existed in Naturalized City for more than ten years, it cannot compete with the local restaurants "Maixiang Village" and "Fenglin Pavilion" that emerged after 1932. After the blockage of Mongolia, Xinjiang also began to have many troubles, and the foreign banks and "Jinbang" relied on by the "East Road Restaurant" were withdrawn around 1930.
After the "Jin Army" ruled Suiyuan in 1928, there were fewer military and political personnel in Jiluyu, so "Yijucheng" ceased business before the Anti-Japanese War.
After the fall of Suizhou in 1937, Chen Honglin of "Yijucheng" and Chen Fulin of "Yidecheng" were supported by Liu Changrong and Wang Mingyuan to open the "New New Restaurant" in the council hall lane of Dabei Street.
Since the collapse of the "Shinshin Restaurant" with the surrender of Japan, there has been no larger "East Road Restaurant" in Guisui. Before liberation, in addition to the "double residence" before the Great Zhao, the "Houdefu" in Ximadao Lane and the "Qingfeng Ju" in the railway station, but after the closure of the "Huabin Building" and "Guanghuaju" on Daxi Street, another "Yunlong Ship" appeared.
It and the "pie porridge" on Great North Street are all under the guise of white paper, and there was a stage of Muslim banquets.
Because "Gu Fengxuan", "Dehe Lou" and "Tianxinyuan" were closed, the only local Hui people operated were "Dumpling Restaurant" and "Roast Mai Restaurant", so they had to go down to the "East Road Restaurant" to eat some more advanced meals.
Although the "East Road Restaurant" has not established itself in Naturalized City, other catering industries in Donglu have developed greatly in Naturalized City.
First of all, except for the bankruptcy of the "Zhouguo Bureau" in 1925 due to the bankruptcy of Shandong due to the dumping of tobacco soil into the "spindle base" of the Otok banner, the "Shiguo Bureau" and the "Kangguo Bureau" were maintained until the liberation. This is because the sauce and soy sauce made by Baoding teacher Fu of the sauce garden are more delicious than those made by the vinegar sauce shop in Qi County.
In particular, in 1918, the "Guangheyi" of East Road appeared, which was even higher than other sauce gardens and vinegar sauce shops. The "Guangheyi" Cai Dong has the surname Wang and Sun and other families, all of whom are from Tianjin.
It is an enterprise that employs Shanxi people to operate and manage, Baoding people to operate and operate, and under the "white paper guise of Hui people", it develops along the railway to the northwest. First there are semicolons in Zhangjiakou and Fengzhen, and later there are stores in Xiqian Street, the most prosperous in Baotou, and in Naturalized City, there are four fences outside the North Gate, Daxi Street, Da Nan Street and Dazhaoqian.
In addition to rice noodles, pastries, fish and shrimp, fresh vegetables and fresh fruits, everything else is available, and it has become a fierce rival of the paper hemp cabinet and seafood shop of the "Shanxi Gang" in the naturalized city.
As soon as "Guangheyi" set up a fence on Daxi Street, he squeezed down the store of "Shiguo Bureau", and later made his own dewy curd, put it in glass bottles and coarse porcelain jars, and sold it with its own trademark.
"Shanxi Gang" paper and linen cabinets such as "Sanyuancheng" also buy curd milk from "Guangheyi", fake sauce tofu sold from Taiyuan, and deceive users of long-established brands such as "Sanyuancheng".
Therefore, "Guangheyi" "withdrew the farm" before liberation, not because the business was lost, but because the financial owner foresaw that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he would transform industry and commerce, so he withdrew his share capital.
The second is the "Yan Mark" of Yan Decheng, a big businessman in Tianjin, who also came to Naturalized City to set up a village after the opening of Jingsui Road. As a result, several Beijing dim sum shops opened at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Min Dynasty were completely overcrowded by the number and the diagonal "Fulanzhai" of the number.
"Yanji" also has a semicolon in Shanghai, and Zhangjiakou has two door cabinets. Gui Sui's "Yanji" was operated by Yang Shenyan, Yan Decheng's nephew. Before the opening of Jingsui Road, the south gate of the naturalized old city had not been demolished. The south gate is in what is now Dashi.
Yang Shenyan saw that the streets in the old city would prosper because of the opening of Jingsui Road, and the dashi character outside the south gate would also become the center of the city. Therefore, when the South City Gate was demolished, he bought the officials in charge of the Tumut Banner Yamen, and used the wood from the demolition of the Tumut Banner "Changpingcang" (that is, the address of the current "People's Cinema" in Ximadao Lane) to build seven facades on the east side of the road of the South Gate, that is, the "Yanji" was opened there.
"Yanji" set up workshops and hired teachers from Tianjin and Beijing to make pastries. In Shacheng and Huailai on the eastern section of Jingsui Road, peasants were given advances to "occupy" large areas of fruit and tree orchards.
Fresh fruits are transported by train, and dew, canned biscuits and high-grade fruit candy from Shanghai's "Daoxiang Village", "Guansheng Garden" and Tianjin's "Old Maosen", as well as bananas from Guangdong, oranges and ham from the south, as well as hardware and porcelain.
During the Japanese occupation, silk was also sold and became a comprehensive food department store. Due to the moderate location, the business of "Speech Mark" is very developed.
Fu Zijun, a Beijinger who made a fortune selling opium between the northwest and Tianjin and Beijing, also opened a "Fulanzhai" with the same nature as the "Yanji" diagonal, that is, the northwest corner of the Dashizi.
"Fulanzhai" received the chassis of the "Tiancheng Thick" tea shop, and leased several nearby shops to build seven door cabinets connected together, so "Fulanzhai" also sold tea.
Because Fu Zijun trafficked opium and made many friends in Ningxia, he later opened a semicolon of "Fulanzhai" in Yinchuan City. These two East Road food stores, holding the two corners of Dashizi, compete with each other, and have been doing a good business for nearly 20 years.
After the Japanese puppet began to rule the economy, the business of all walks of life was difficult to do, and the financial owners of these two companies retreated, so after the surrender of Japan, these two prominent names disappeared.
Later, on the former site of "Yanji" and "Fulanzhai", some locals and Shanxi people continued to operate food stores, completely imitating the methods and methods of "Yanjiao" and "Fulanzhai", thus forming a new industry before liberation.
Finally, the fresh vegetables, fish and shrimp industry on East Road has also taken root in Naturalized City. During the Guangxu period, the "Zhou Guo Bureau" in Ergongguan Lane trafficked fresh fruits, fish and shrimp from Beijing.
After the completion of Pingkangli in 1915, there were Manchurians from Hebei Province Nanfengsan, in order to meet the needs of the prostitutes in the "East Road Restaurant" and "Team" on the street. There, a "De Yuanxing" was opened, which transported Beijing's fresh vegetables, fish and shrimp by train to Fengzhen, and then transported overnight from dry feet to Guisui.
After the opening of Jingsui Road, it is more convenient to transport fresh goods to and from each other.
There are Wang Shiwu, a native of Tong County, Hebei, and Fu Guoxing, a native of Ji County, who opened "Jing Maoyong" at the railway station, and the "Yisheng Quan" dim sum shop opened by the strongman of Hebei Zao in the new city, and at this time also expanded its business scope, adding a sauce garden to pastries, and adding fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, and fresh fish to it.
During this period, Yang, a native of Shahe, Hebei, came to Guisui from Zhangjiakou, and opened a "Tongfeng Yu" selling medicinal wine and selling fresh goods at the mouth of Siyanjing Lane on Dabei Street, which closed down in 1929 and was taken over by "Deyuanxing" in Pingkangli, reorganized as "Zhongxing", and delivered from Beijing's Xiheyan Fish Market and Fengtai Station.
Later, near the "Zhongxing", two people from Dingxian County drove the "Yongxing" similar to the "Zhongxing".
"Zhongxing" and "Yongxing" are not sold in fresh fruits, dim sum shops and sauce and vinegar because of the "Yanji" and "Fulan Zhai" and "Guangheyi" nearby.
"Zhongxing" and in late autumn and early winter every year, a large number of local spinach, coriander, celery and other "fine vegetables" are stored in the cellar, and fresh goods are sold in winter and spring, gradually reversing the habit of locals and Shanxi people not eating fresh vegetables, so the business is very good, and after liberation, it embarked on the road of public-private partnership.
(Contributed by CPPCC Hohhot Municipal Committee)